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I hate it...

By Bill on February 5, 2011 | | Comments (24)
...when I open a seemingly-innocent e-mail from one of my Viet-Vet buds and see --


The weathermen say the temperature is going to drop to extreme levels tonight, and everyone should check on the elderly and the senile.








Are you OK???


Thanks a heap, Matt.

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By Justthisguy on February 5, 2011 4:24 AM
I'm right behind you, Sir, on that elderly and senile biznis.  I'm starting to have trouble remembering the proper cuss words to use at people in particular situations.  Also, I just found out that Marine 6 lives in the same town as I do. Should I arrange a meeting?  Will he take one look at me, knock me down, and kick me in the head a whole bunch? Owhell, nothing ventured, nothing gained.
 
By BillT on February 5, 2011 5:05 AM
Should I arrange a meeting?

Just don't suggest it's to go shopping for drapes...

 
By Saker on February 5, 2011 6:13 AM
Bill- Hahaaa! That's awesome. With friends like these....

JTG- Can't remember what cuss words to use in what situations??? Perish the thought!!!
 
By BillT on February 5, 2011 7:41 AM
Jtg -- Ordinarily, simple profanity is acceptable in mixed company, while scatology or references to other biological functions, whether in noun, adjectival, adverbial, or gerundal application, should be reserved for same gender conversations.

Did that help?


 
By DL Sly on February 5, 2011 8:43 AM
"Ordinarily, simple profanity is acceptable in mixed company, while scatology or references to other biological functions, whether in noun, adjectival, adverbial, or gerundal application, should be reserved for same gender conversations."

Well, sh#*, that really f#$*ing sucks!  I've been doing it f #$*ing wrong all these d@$^ years!  Nobody f$*#ing told me!
Sh#*
I hate when that happens.

On the otter heiny, JTG, you could just say you have Senile Tourette's.  That should get you outta pretty much any *uncomfortable* situation.  Course, you could just play like you have no clue what's got everyone's panties in a wad........which will only reinforce the Senile Tourette's story.

Oh, and Mr. DeBille?  You never answered the thoughtful, kind email.  Are you ok?
heh
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By jim b on February 5, 2011 9:50 AM
I am usually pretty thick skinned about all this ... however I DO remember and take exception to the invitation to join that I got from AARP.

So in the postage paid envelop provided I got a big fat red magic marker and wrote out 4Q (the spelled out long version of course) on the reply thingie and mailed it back.

My guess is that they put my name in the already senile pile and then they left me alone.

 
By WereKitten on February 5, 2011 10:28 AM
DL Sly wins.
I can't beat that.....
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 5, 2011 10:35 AM
Don't fall for that, Sly.  He likes it.  That was an invitation, not an imprecation.
 
By Oldloadr on February 5, 2011 10:50 AM
Anyway, Bill, how cold is it where you are?  It's been down in teh 50's here at night, although it was a perfect 72 today when the daughter and I went to the Al Ain Air Show.
 
By DL Sly on February 5, 2011 11:32 AM
"Bite me."

Bare it.

"Don't fall for that, Sly.  He likes it."

Yeah, I know.
*snnnicker*
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By bad cat robot on February 5, 2011 12:34 PM
(Thoughtfully hands DL Sly the Tabasco sauce)

JTG, don't forget Security through Obfuscation.  Double-jointed vocabulary and in extremis, foreign languages can cover a multitude of sins. 
 
By Fishmugger on February 5, 2011 2:08 PM
One of the nice things about serving our country is that you learn to curse in so many different languages. 18 at last count, even though Japanese only has one official curse word, they love cursing so much that they incorporated ours. They just use them differently, however.
 
By J.M. Heinrichs on February 5, 2011 3:50 PM
1.  "Eschew obfuscation"
2. Anticipating a lert? It's cancelled:  www.lugod.org/projects/lert/
3. worldmustbecrazy.blogspot.com/2009/10/mortadella-biggest-sausage-in-world.html

Cheers
 
By DL Sly on February 5, 2011 5:08 PM

Thx, BCR, but I prefer bourbon.....multi-purpose tonic that.
And I am proficient in three languages: English, profanity and sarcasm.
0>;~}

 
By HomefrontSix on February 6, 2011 2:54 AM
"Bite me."

Rarely is that anything other than an invitation. When it comes to helicopter pilots, it's always an invitation.
 
By Barb on February 6, 2011 11:13 AM
When it comes to helicopter pilots, almost Everything is an invitation :-) 
 
By DL Sly on February 6, 2011 2:14 PM
Would that mean than an invitation becomes an imperative?
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By Justthisguy on February 6, 2011 3:38 PM
Dammit, my comment about the death of Charlie Kaman disappeared into "loading" limbo. Armorer, please give those server gnomes some extra licks for me, with a Thieves' Cat.
 
By Justthisguy on February 6, 2011 3:46 PM
I'll try again.

Charlie Kaman, a guy who arguably designed some of the best helicopters ever built, and unarguably designed the best guitars ever built,  and established a successful foundation to breed the coppish meanness out of German Shepherd Dogs, so as to make them suitable guide dogs for blind people, died about a week ago. There was, of course, nothing about that in the MSM.
 
By Justthisguy on February 6, 2011 3:53 PM
BCR, the one bilingual pun I came up with is very politically incorrect.  It was "Don't be so genucrescent!"
 
By jim b on February 6, 2011 10:21 PM
"When it comes to helicopter pilots, almost Everything is an invitation :-) "

When it comes to zoomies ... everything is a plea for ... yea I am Tom Cruize ... top gun .... want me.
 
By Quartermaster on February 7, 2011 7:11 PM
 Zoomies wouldn't come close to claiming Cruise. Ever. Even if they are totally inebriated. Which is often, if we can believe Virgil Xenophon.

Bill, are we, dare I say it, feeling aged?

Fortunately, I am down here, while you are up there, placing me out of reach, for the time being.
 
By BillT on February 7, 2011 9:47 PM
Now I've got you surrounded.